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By Patrick Kehoe - With Celtic blue bloods, Nordic invaders, hall of fame bidding technicians and punching panthers roaming about, the middleweight division(s) looks so replete with scintillating match ups, not even boxing’s world governing bodies enabled by pathological promotional self-interest or safety first managers could mess up what must surely become a tidal wave inevitability: the return of the middleweights!
And to that thought of a reconstituted middleweight domain we remain fixed, fixating with obsessing hope.
As the entrancing featherweight contests between Erik Morales, Marco Antonio Barrera and Naseem Hamed at the beginning of this decade, this millennium, gave verifiable evidence that boxing could still market the most extreme and metaphoric forms of martial combat, so the middleweights are set to go nova, incandescent with marketable spectacles.
At least we hope the hype can become generalized, searching out beyond the hardcore boxing fans because the middleweight scene really has become a teaming, Darwinian jungle of terrorizing talents. The hyperbole here only marginally inflated. And we do not strain credulity in order to hype the potential ring product, careful to color in the combatants, narrating these fights of champions knowing that era defining encounters are coming at us at light speed. We need only indulge in modest boostersim to do justice to an amazing era emerging. With middleweight contenders Edison Miranda and Kelly Pavlik set to exchange concussing volleys on July 28 for HBO subscribers, the talk of Joe Calzaghe meeting Mikkel Kessler becomes all the more intriguing, all the more a necessary weeding out at the summit. [details]
And to that thought of a reconstituted middleweight domain we remain fixed, fixating with obsessing hope.
As the entrancing featherweight contests between Erik Morales, Marco Antonio Barrera and Naseem Hamed at the beginning of this decade, this millennium, gave verifiable evidence that boxing could still market the most extreme and metaphoric forms of martial combat, so the middleweights are set to go nova, incandescent with marketable spectacles.
At least we hope the hype can become generalized, searching out beyond the hardcore boxing fans because the middleweight scene really has become a teaming, Darwinian jungle of terrorizing talents. The hyperbole here only marginally inflated. And we do not strain credulity in order to hype the potential ring product, careful to color in the combatants, narrating these fights of champions knowing that era defining encounters are coming at us at light speed. We need only indulge in modest boostersim to do justice to an amazing era emerging. With middleweight contenders Edison Miranda and Kelly Pavlik set to exchange concussing volleys on July 28 for HBO subscribers, the talk of Joe Calzaghe meeting Mikkel Kessler becomes all the more intriguing, all the more a necessary weeding out at the summit. [details]